I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. – Richard Dawkins
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. – Richard Dawkins
Im not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history. – Richard Dawkins
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. – Richard Dawkins
Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866